Round 71 Signups are now open! Sign up HERE or if you have played since Round 41, login HERE.

Changes as follows:

-Buddy packs are now either 2 or 3 in size, and when the galaxy shuffle occurs at tick 12, only one buddy pack is placed in each galaxy.
-Late starters will be disabled this round.
-Init cost now changed to be 1000+200*number_of_asteroids_of_that_type (was 1000+150*number_of_asteroids_of_that_type)
-Wave Amplifiers now are 800 CU
-Wave Distorters are now 400 CU
-Ships are now killed not stolen when you covert op them
-The Xandrathii race, so long cloaked from view, has suddenly disappeared from the universe, rumoured to be resting after constant rounds of violence for many years of battling.

Ship stats, race stats and government stats are all final

Thank you to Jintao as always for organising the stats with support from Kaiba, and Veni for submitting the roundname.